The price tag for restoring Chicago’s Grant Park after this year’s four-day Lollapalooza festival totaled more than $400,000, a $120,000 hike from the year before.
The $409,695 bill for 2022 includes the cost of new seed, sod and shrubbery; irrigation; and reinstalling mesh fencing, according to documents obtained by the Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Costs vary from year to year — largely depending on weather — and are paid by the festival’s organizer, C3 Presents. The company has spent roughly $2.3 million for such repairs for the past five festivals (Lollapalooza was not held in person in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic), according to the cost estimates prepared for C3 by the landscaping company Christy Webber & Company and provided by the Chicago Park District.
